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Fort Worth, like many cities across the country, places the maintenance obligation for sidewalks, parkways, driveway approaches and curbs/gutters on the owner of the affected property.
Traffic engineers refer to three "E's" when discussing traffic calming: engineering, (community) education, and (police) enforcement.Because neighborhood traffic management studies have shown that residents often contribute to the perceived speeding problem within their neighborhoods, instructions on traffic calming (for example in Hass-Klau et al., 1992 [4]) stress that the most effective ...
Oakland, bans smoking within 25 feet of an entrance, exit, window, or air intake of the building of most enclosed places where smoking is prohibited (e.g., workplaces, service areas, common areas and no-smoking units of multi-unit housing); exemption is made outside of bars provided the smoke does not enter prohibited areas. Smoking is also ...
Zamora-Quezada v. HealthTexas Medical Group [89] (begun in 1998) was the first time this act was used against HMOs when a novel lawsuit [90] was filed by Texas attorney Robert Provan against five HMOs for their practice of revoking the contracts of doctors treating disabled patients. In 1999, these HMOs sought to dismiss Provan's lawsuit, but a ...
An audit of L.A.'s scandalous response to broken sidewalks put the service call backlog at 50,000, but there is no long-range plan in place to make those fixes Column: LA's cracked, ruptured ...
One of the world's most heavily used pedestrian scrambles, the Shibuya Crossing at HachikÅ Square in Tokyo. A pedestrian scramble (or exclusive pedestrian interval) is a type of traffic signal movement that temporarily stops all vehicular traffic, thereby allowing pedestrians to cross an intersection in every direction, including diagonally, at the same time.
New construction and remodeling projects needing building permits require that landscape design submittals include garden design plans showing the means of compliance. [ 4 ] In some cities and counties, such as Portland, Oregon , street and highway departments are regrading and planting rain gardens in road verges to reduce boulevard and ...
Many buildings chose the latter option, opting to use the vaulted area for storage. As recently as 2001 there were still over 2,000 vaulted sidewalks in Chicago [6] Today the old vaulted sidewalks are visible mostly during construction and cause increased costs of infrastructure maintenance. [7] This is a vaulted sidewalk under construction in ...